Fugitive Poets

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Fugitive Poets was an influential early 20th-century literary group of Southern American writers and critics associated with the magazine The Fugitive, known for shaping New Criticism and modern Southern literature.

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Fugitive Poets canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American writers collective
literary group
activeInCentury 20th century
alsoKnownAs The Fugitives
associatedInstitution Vanderbilt University
associatedWith The Fugitive
basedIn Nashville, Tennessee
characteristic emphasis on craftsmanship in poetry
interest in modernist techniques
reaction against sentimentalism in Southern writing
country United States
culturalContext interwar American South
dissolved late 1920s
editorialFigure John Crowe Ransom
field literary theory
literature
poetics
focus formal analysis of poetry
regional Southern themes
genre literary criticism
poetry
historicalSignificance contributed to the development of modern Southern literature
helped establish close reading as a critical method
influenced American literary modernism
New Criticism
Southern Agrarians
language English
location Nashville, Tennessee
medium little magazine
movement New Criticism
modern Southern literature
notableMember Allen Tate
Andrew Lytle
Cleanth Brooks
Donald Davidson
John Crowe Ransom
Merrill Moore
Robert Penn Warren
Sidney Mttron Hirsch
publication The Fugitive
region American South
startTime early 1920s

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John Crowe Ransom memberOf Fugitive Poets
Allen Tate memberOf Fugitive Poets
Robert Penn Warren memberOf Fugitive Poets
Southern Agrarians precededBy Fugitive Poets